Sage advice: “I encourage all medical students to set some non-academic goals for their medical school years. I knew students who ran marathons, raised families, volunteered for their churches. Non-academic personal goals are important in medical school; they help keep you human.”
I second that. It is very easy to become engulfed by medical training. Having a non-academic outlet is essential. This is especially true as residents who enter the real world find that it wasn’t what they thought it would be.
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Despite high intelligence, drive, and accumulation of technical skills of young physicians, a real pitfall to a concentration on the study of medicine is narrowness of education and experience, ehich, it will be controversial to say, is not so prevalent in other professions. The well-rounded physician I find is the more capabale physician – in business, in personal relations, and the practice of medicine itself.
Ironically, I had more time for raising a family as a medical student than I do as a practicing family physician. The well-rounded physician may become an oxymoron as the financial pressures increase the time demands of the job.
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